# People of Different Races Who Look Remarkably Similar **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 30, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371 "2010-11-30T04:15:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/1 "2010-11-30T04:15:42Z")
Barack Obama [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack\_Obama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama) and Nikolai Yezhov [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai\_Yezhov](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov) ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/2 "2010-11-30T04:47:06Z")
[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSyezhov.htm](http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSyezhov.htm) You should really try to broaden your news sources. ’ [http://www.google.com/images?q=Nikolai+Yezhov&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=toD0TIL6OYS4sQOmhu21Cw&sa=X&oi=image\_result\_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CDkQsAQwAg&biw=1259&bih=839](http://www.google.com/images?q=Nikolai+Yezhov&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=toD0TIL6OYS4sQOmhu21Cw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CDkQsAQwAg&biw=1259&bih=839) ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/3 "2010-11-30T04:53:26Z")
[Qin Shi Huangdi](http://www.historicalpictures.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Shi-Huangdi-first-emperor-of-the-Chin-dynasty.jpg) and [Curtis LeMay.](http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/50426594.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=E41C9FE5C4AA0A1454FCA2AB4F01C762D52077109F593D9C92A17EF6648BBEB3B01E70F2B3269972) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/4 "2010-11-30T05:27:38Z")
**Qin** , how about stop starting so many inane threads? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/5 "2010-11-30T05:33:15Z")
Or cut out the drugs? Although, I shit you not, I met a Tibetan in the middle of the nomad grasslands that looked like the twin brother of Bo Diddley. How’s that? ---
**Author:** ![nani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/6 "2010-11-30T09:41:02Z")
I agree that this topic is pretty silly, but I do have to say that when I was in China I was struck by how eerily Taiwanese singer and drama actor [Jerry](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nbbbs.com/forum/attachments/W3d3dy5sYnZlLg%3D%3D_sMjFJ8uEzZBW.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.network54.com/Forum/431790/message/1267710953/Down%2BWith%2BLove%2B-%2BStarring%2BJerry%2BYan%2Band%2BElla%2BChen%2BSoon%2BOn%2BABS%2B-%2BCBN&usg=__RPr_v_DcMbNLRjm3-j_cxr61HEM=&h=528&w=720&sz=42&hl=en&start=423&sig2=6Pm4GKnjf-sfPWF84xboQg&zoom=1&tbnid=xrW2BKmcrxl3NM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=161&ei=dcL0TMfGM4bAsAPE1Nz8Aw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djerry%2Byan%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1258%26bih%3D701%26tbs%3Disch:11%2C8213&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=455&oei=a8L0TL_DMorUtQPqr6CjDA&esq=36&page=15&ndsp=31&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:423&tx=83&ty=32&biw=1258&bih=701) [Yan](http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:HYmByXqWNYHSVM:http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii71/myvijerry/Depend%20On%20U%20prescon/JerryELLa.jpg&t=1) resembled a young version of British actor [Steve](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080124/film-sundance-acquisitions/images/93071d9f-184d-4602-a685-93b86e683c4e.jpg) [Coogan](http://jackiechankids.com/images_2/ATW80D_Premiere_REUTERS_Jim_Ruymen6.jpg). Looking at the photos, I’m not exactly sure why I was so struck by this, certainly no one else in China agreed with me, but maybe you just had to see Jerry Yan’s nose on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/7 "2010-12-01T03:18:30Z")
_[The Family Circus](http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/9296/p035.jpg)_ has covered this ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/8 "2010-12-01T20:42:49Z")
My Dad’s white and he looks a lot like Bill Cosby. Guin, what are you, a stalker or something? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/9 "2010-12-01T21:13:28Z")
Hello [2008](http://www.inmirror.com/humor/nikolai-yezhov-barack-obama). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/10 "2010-12-01T21:27:55Z")
I was once on a bus in Baltimore and saw a guy who looked like a Black version of Steve Buscemi. I also saw a Black Jean Reno once. ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/11 "2010-12-01T21:41:36Z")
Shaggy and Snoop Dog. – Different voices, though. ---
**Author:** ![Peeta\_Mellark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Peeta\_Mellark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peeta_Mellark)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/12 "2010-12-01T21:53:39Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Barack Obama [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack\_Obama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama) and > Nikolai Yezhov [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai\_Yezhov](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov) I know mixed race people can be confusing to people who deal with ethnicity as a binary problem, but while Obama inherited much of his coloring from his paternal side he looks a hell of a lot like his [maternal grandfather](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SNzNdyLkAiU/SRNqOkxWYGI/AAAAAAAAHS8/sZnThLZ6fAk/s400/%2312+Democratic+presidential+hopeful+Barack+Obama+plays+on+the+beach+with+his+grandfather+on+his+mother%27s+side,+Stanley+Armour+Dunham.+Photo+courtesy+Obama+campaign.jpg). So if he happens to look like some white people out there…try not to be too shocked. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/13 "2010-12-01T21:56:51Z")
I think the point is that the linked picture of Yezhov is not a good representation of what Yezhov actually looked like. I don’t know for sure whether it’s a fake, though. ---
**Author:** ![hammos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hammos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammos1)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-different-races-who-look-remarkably-similar/562371/14 "2010-12-03T22:05:38Z")
A bit of a stretch, perhaps- [Bernard Bresslaw](http://www.teletronic.co.uk/bernardbresslaw5.jpg) and [Emile Heskey](http://img.skysports.com/08/10/218x298/emile-heskey_1429561.jpg).